http://www.netvouz.com/jgordon/folder/8871482345066561807/Social+Studies?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks in folder Social Studies on Netvouz http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Social_Studies.html Awesome Library organizes the Web with 28,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. This is the social studies link Social Studies jgordon Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:36:28 GMT http://www.besthistorysites.net/Multimedia.shtml Find the best history sites for time periods in history, maps, general resources, Maps, Lesson Plans/Activities and research and Multimedia. This page lists the multimedia resources. See sidebar for others. Social Studies jgordon Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:04:58 GMT http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/multimedia.cfm This site includes the Flash Movie "An Overview of American History" Dr. Steven Mintz shares his perspectives on the major themes in our country's past. See multiple other history links. Social Studies jgordon Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:32:30 GMT http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/intro.html ReadingQuest challenges you to think about what students should know or be able to do and, perhaps more importantly, what it looks like when they are engaging the content towards the purpose of that lesson. While designed with social studies in mind, teachers of any content area can find the strategies and the process useful and helpful. Links to great reading strategies. Social Studies jgordon Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:32:31 GMT http://www.esc13.net/socialstudies/downloading.html Powerpoint presentations, Lessons, Reading strategies, Graphic Organizers, Word wall, Word Categorizaton activities, and many other excellent resources for social studies teachers. Social Studies jgordon Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:32:47 GMT http://www.westonschools.org/admin/curr/SBEP%20Documents/historyss.pdf This school district has written big ideas/understandings for the standards they deem to be the most critical. Social Studies jgordon Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:25:42 GMT http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/ This site developed by BBC contains many resources attractive to kids. It is aligned with British standards, but contains many useful links. See the many other historical links. Social Studies jgordon Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:22:35 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio or video clips from BBC archives. Social Studies jgordon Sun, 27 May 2007 20:47:26 GMT https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html CIA Factbook contains detailed information on every country in the world. The information is well organized and easily accessible. Great Site Recommended by Michael Petrov Social Studies jgordon Sun, 27 May 2007 20:42:50 GMT http://www.colorincolorado.org/web_resources/by_topic/content_resources_social_studies Content Resources: Social Studies Links for teaching Social studies to ELLs collected by Colorin Colorado Social Studies jgordon Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:33:18 GMT